CIO Insight Staff

Strategic Supremacy: How Industry Leaders Create Spheres of Influence From Their Portfolios to Achieve Pre-Eminence By Richard A. D’aveni Free Press, 2001 288 pages, $29 In his follow-up to Hypercompetition, D’Aveni, professor of strategic management at Dartmouth University’s Tuck School of Business, delivers an operating manual for managers defending their market positions against aggressive attackers. […]

Betting It All: The Technology Entrepreneurs By Michael Malone John Wiley & Sons, 2001 256 pages, $27.95 The editor-in-chief of Forbes ASAP looks at 16 technology industry titans, including Bill Gates, Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison, exploring their human sides as well as the motives and inspirations that drive them to succeed.

Mind at Light Speed: A New Kind of Intelligence By David D. Nolte Free Press, 2001 256 pages, $26 A prominent computer scientist and physicist argues that optical computing will permanently change the nature of computing and intelligence. Nolte describes hologram hard drives, computers that can see and an all-optical Internet with decision-making abilities, as […]

Information Markets: What Business Can Learn From Financial Innovation By William J. Wilhelm Jr. and Joseph D. Downing Harvard Business School Press, 2001 240 pages, $29.95 The financial industry has become a marketplace for information as well as stocks and bonds. Wilhelm, an Oxford University professor, and Downing, an investment banker at General Finance LLC, […]

Power Play: The Beginning of the Endgame in Net Markets By Mike Moriarty and Bruce Klassen John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001 240 pages, $29.95 A.T. Kearney Inc. consultants analyze how large companies are taking advantage of their size and market power to profit from B2B net marketplaces such as Covisint, Aerospan and the WorldWide […]

Jack: Straight From the Gut By Jack Welch with John A. Byrne Warner Books, 2001 496 pages, $29.95 Recommended by Chris Harrison, former Director of Enterprise Architecture, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.: “Welch tells how he became who he is today and what he did to make GE one of the most admired companies in the […]

Since the surprising spike in the level of economic confidence among CIOs following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the November Confidence Meter has settled back somewhat. CIOs gave the chances that the overall economy would recover in the next 90 days a 5.0 on a scale of one to 10, pegged the chances for […]

Digital Storm: Fresh Business Strategies from the Electronic Marketplace By Philipp Gerbert and Alex Birch John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001 352 pages, $29.95 The trials and tribulations of B2B marketplaces is the kickoff point for an analysis of how to make business interactions work, creating value through innovation and why software is the weak […]

From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy By Yves Doz, Jose Santos and Peter Williamson Harvard Business School Press, 2001 272 pages, $29.95 Three international strategy experts describe “metanationals”—a new kind of global company that can sense and capture new knowledge worldwide, then apply it to out-innovate competitors and manage operations […]

Adversity Quotient @ Work: Finding Your Hidden Capacity for Getting Things Done By Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D. HarperBusiness, 2001 352 pages, $14 In the sequel to Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities, the president and CEO of PEAK Learning, a consulting and training firm, shows readers how to measure their adversity quotient—one’s ability to overcome […]

Strategies for E-Business Success Edited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Glen Urban Jossey-Bass, 2001 250 pages, $19 To be published in November, this is a collection of the best thinking on e-commerce strategy published in the Sloan Management Review. Authors include Clayton Christensen, Tom Davenport, M. Lynne Markus, David Feeny and N. Venkatraman.

Hidden Assets By Mark Kindley Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and the codirector of the Center for eBusiness@MIT, is a staunch believer in the long-term contribution of technology to productivity growth. But he also believes that investing in technology isn’t as easy as buying […]